BIRD POSSIBLE CAUSE OF 5-ACRE GRASS FIRE.Byline: Teresa Teresa of Ávila, St. religious contemplation brought her spiritual ecstasy. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 318] See : Mysticism Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer A five-acre grass fire that may have been ignited ig·nite v. ig·nit·ed, ig·nit·ing, ig·nites v.tr. 1. a. To cause to burn. b. To set fire to. 2. To subject to great heat, especially to make luminous by heat. by a nesting bird on an electrical pole broke out about 2 p.m. Monday at Avenue Scott and Highway 126, but was controlled within two hours. ``It's just speculation that a bird may have triggered the fire,'' said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Firefighter Corey Lovers. ``It's still under investigation.'' About 100 firefighters and two helicopter crews battled the blaze BLAZE - A single assignment language for parallel processing. ["The BLAZE Language: A Parallel Language for Scientific Programming", P. Mehrotra <mehrotra@csrd.uiuc.edu> et al, J Parallel Comp 5(3):339-361 (Nov 1987)]. , which did not threaten any buildings, he said. The crews built a ring around the fire to keep it from spreading. Firefighters received the emergency call from construction crews working in the area, Lovers said. One worker also drove to local Fire Station 76 just across the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , he said. Lovers said the fire danger is high and will remain so during the summer and fall seasons because of the El Nino storms. ``We have more grass than we ever did. It will be worse,'' Lovers said. ``With no rain, there's no grass.'' |
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